How do you start a business and what are the opportunities available?

Entrepreneurial projects

There are no industrial businesses or any other major employers in the area. Most families are involved in fishing, sustenance farming, and other informal businesses. Some examples are a local barber or hairdresser, a small shack selling soap, matches, and pencils, or a person mending shoes.

As you can imagine, none of these businesses are very formal, and mostly they are a one-person or perhaps a family run business.

Looking for income can be a challenge in these circumstances if you don’t have any crops or fish to sell, and if you haven’t gotten a skill. 75% of our residents has ‘finished primary school or less’ as their highest education level according to our latest survey in 2021.

That is why providing people with a skill is essential to give them the opportunity to create a business on their own. Along with skills we emphasise education in bookkeeping, mobile banking, savings and investment into their business.

Currently we have three entrepreneurial projects:


Tailoring and Sewing

The aim of our Tailoring and Sewing project is to teach young women to set up and run their own business, based around sewing as a skillset.

The girls have been taught how to use sewing machines - the old-fashioned kind motored by a foot pedal rather than electricity, as we cannot rely on access to electricity here.

They work in a group to support each other through skills and inspiration but also to help each other with child minding and cooking. The products they make are sold at the local market and they are now busier than ever. School uniforms, reusable pads, and clothing is the main items they make.

Future ideas

Cedar Tanzania is currently researching and planning new initiatives for our entrepreneurial projects:

  • Bee keeping,

  • Fish farming and fish leather production

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